Current Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Biology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites532
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates357
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past224
Kleptoplasty: Solar-powered sea slugs house stolen plastids in kleptosomes189
Social bonding: Without oxytocin, voles are not-so-fast friends175
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators165
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum152
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes135
North Atlantic tipping point ahead135
Gonzalo Giribet126
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse119
Mistletoes116
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy115
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand112
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation109
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise107
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise104
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons102
Anthropocene at altitude97
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin96
My bird96
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters92
Short-term memory: How oscillatory networks preserve sensory history91
Object learning: Ball games for flies90
Telomere inheritance: Why the parent matters, not just the genes89
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor88
Animal behavior: Capuchin gang abducts infant howler monkeys88
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe87
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up86
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward86
Ancient Australia84
Daniel J.C. Kronauer82
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing78
Coalitionary intra-group aggression by wild female bonobos78
The enteric nervous system76
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance75
Tube morphogenesis: A developing valve squeezes into shape around a transient cell75
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings74
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe74
Sleep spindles track cortical learning patterns for memory consolidation73
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap72
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks71
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery71
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy71
Q & A70
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex69
Evo–devo: Ferns flourished due to developmental covariance between leaves and vasculature69
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis67
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia67
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition66
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?65
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on63
Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges63
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self63
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea63
Experience-dependent reconfiguration of thermoreceptors regulates neuronal response plasticity62
Iberian ribbed newts62
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List62
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock62
MICOS61
Australian magpies60
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets60
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts60
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish60
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health60
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction59
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches59
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry58
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila58
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition56
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection56
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice55
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom55
A BORC-dependent molecular pathway for vesiculation of cell corpse phagolysosomes55
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly55
Control of stem cell behavior by CLE-JINGASA signaling in the shoot apical meristem in Marchantia polymorpha54
Fronto-medial theta coordinates posterior maintenance of working memory content54
Hormone-controlled changes in the differentiation state of post-mitotic neurons54
Cambrian origin of the arachnid brain53
Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements53
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin53
High-fat food reinforces risk taking by suppressing defensive neurons53
Erin Saupe52
A circuit from the basolateral amygdala to hippocampal CA3 regulates social behavior52
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa52
Rolling back public health52
Fungal endophytes52
Jill Harrison51
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor51
Hindbrain neurons that underlie water discrimination and consumption51
A signaling hub in the mosquito rectum coordinates reproductive investment after blood feeding51
RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments from a chromophore precursor to escape competition with rods50
Cephalopod behaviour50
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum50
Lipocalins50
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals50
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila50
External mechanical force drives axonal cytoskeletal rearrangements49
Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeasts49
Yeast domestication49
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos49
Feature representation under crowding in macaque V1 and V4 neuronal populations48
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs48
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice48
Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning48
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL48
Genomic evidence of a complex supergene system linking dispersal to social polymorphism48
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants48
Electric fishes: How electric eel predators and their prey avoid detection48
Animal medication48
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle48
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease48
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly47
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction47
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research47
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test47
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex47
The biomechanics of turgor pressure47
A common molecular mechanism underlying Cornelia de Lange and CHOPS syndromes47
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance47
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus47
Local translation provides the asymmetric distribution of CaMKII required for associative memory formation46
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding46
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator46
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean46
Soil carbon as a blind spot in tropical rainforest restoration46
The geologic history of primary productivity46
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition46
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion46
Organogenesis: Cell death matters in size and shape regulation46
Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey46
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation46
Cytokinin promotes growth cessation in the Arabidopsis root46
Sociality is a key driver of foraging ranges in bees46
Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae46
Visual loom caused by self-movement or object-movement elicits distinct responses in mouse superior colliculus45
Ancient genomes reveal demographic trajectories during the Classic Maya period45
Absence of visual cues motivates desert ants to build their own landmarks45
A neural mechanism for optic flow parsing in macaque visual cortex45
Animal physiology: How do tardigrades survive intense radiation?44
A robust receptive field code for optic flow detection and decomposition during self-motion44
Stretch triggers microtubule stabilization and MARCKS-dependent membrane incorporation in the shaft of embryonic axons44
Paleobiology: Drilling for the drivers of the Cambrian explosion44
Architectural shift to epiphytism fuels exotic bryophyte invasiveness44
Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses44
Body ownership: A cephalopod has a sense of self44
Neural population dynamics of human working memory44
Stem cell-specific ecdysone signaling regulates the development of dorsal fan-shaped body neurons and sleep homeostasis44
Skin mycobiota-mediated antagonism against Staphylococcus aureus through a modified fatty acid43
The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila43
Myosin II-driven contractions of supporting cap cells promote sensory adaptation of Drosophila proprioceptors43
Macroevolutionary coupling of marine biomass and biodiversity across the Phanerozoic43
Avian photoreceptor homologies and the origin of double cones43
Nautilus sex determination is unique among cephalopods43
Fungi in peril42
Conversion of anterograde into retrograde trains is an intrinsic property of intraflagellar transport42
Molecular evidence reveals unsustainable harvest of wild orchids42
Identification of an a-factor-like pheromone secreted by the heterothallic ascomycete Aspergillus fumigatus42
A cell-based model for size control in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii42
Modulation and neural correlates of postmating sleep plasticity in Drosophila females42
Magnetic actuation of otoliths allows behavioral and brain-wide neuronal exploration of vestibulo-motor processing in larval zebrafish42
Healthy aging delays and dedifferentiates high-level visual representations42
Force-activated zyxin assemblies coordinate actin nucleation and crosslinking to orchestrate stress fiber repair42
Patterns of Genomic Variation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida glabrata Suggest the Existence of Mating and a Secondary Association with Humans42
Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila42
Climate fluctuations influence variation in group size in a cooperative bird42
Evolution: A quantity–quality trade-off constrains the evolution of immortality in bacterial endospores41
Respiration: The circuit for hypoxia-induced sighs41
Neuroscience: Action history and the orbitofrontal cortex41
Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex41
From Jakarta to the jungle41
Learning and memory: Forgetting to remember41
Measuring air metagenomic diversity in an agricultural ecosystem41
The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry41
Sensory systems: Geckos shake up our understanding of vertebrate audition41
The eyes anticipate where objects will move based on their shape41
Evolution: Mislabeling marsupial development as primitive41
Wetland worries41
Sharks and how to save them40
Drosophila learn to prefer immobile spherical objects through repeated physical interaction40
A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs40
Seed dispersal: Hungry hornets are unexpected and effective vectors40
Plant evolution: Coleochaetophyceae fill the sequence-availability gap of the plant kingdom40
Natalia Jagielska40
Plant reproduction: Stigma receptors regulate reactive oxygen species to establish pollination barriers40
Mediterranean movements40
Nasal breathing: Reading the mind through the nose40
Tracking widespread climate-driven change on temperate and tropical reefs39
Soybean maintained immunodiversity during domestication despite a significant loss in genetic diversity39
Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks39
Mosquitoes integrate visual and acoustic cues to mediate conspecific interactions in swarms39
The dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body size39
Ecosystem condition emerges from an ecological equation of state applied to North American tree communities39
Male alternative reproductive tactics39
A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation39
Phylogenomics defines Streptofilum as a novel deep branch of streptophyte algae39
Bird genitalia39
Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees39
Bacteria grow swiftly and live thriftily39
Whi5 hypo- and hyper-phosphorylation dynamics control cell-cycle entry and progression39
Visual experience exerts an instructive role on cortical feedback inputs to the primary visual cortex39
Spindle checkpoint can secure additional cheating time for selfish expanded centromeres39
Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China39
Climate-induced shifts in crocodile body temperature impact behavior and performance38
KANK proteins38
Rats replay episodic memories in context38
Correlation between ranges of leg walking angles and passive rest angles among leg types in stick insects38
Recruitment of grid-like responses in human entorhinal and piriform cortices by odor landmark-based navigation38
Navigation circuits: Calcium spikes know which way the wind blows38
Maintaining symmetry during body axis elongation38
A Hyperkinetic-dependent redox-sensing mechanism operates specifically in dorsal fan-shaped body neurons to promote sleep38
The histone H3.3 K27M mutation suppresses Ser31phosphorylation and mitotic fidelity, which can directly drive gliomagenesis38
Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees38
Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life38
A pyritized Ordovician leanchoiliid arthropod38
Divergent nectar-feeding mechanisms evidenced by intralingual suction in sunbirds38
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input38
Parasitology: Novel cytoskeletal features anchor Leishmania parasites to surfaces37
Input-timing-dependent plasticity at incoming synapses of the mushroom body facilitates olfactory learning in Drosophila37
A conserved GRAS-domain transcriptional regulator links meristem indeterminacy to sex determination in Ceratopteris gametophytes37
Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits37
Distinct neural adaptations to time demand in the striatum and the hippocampus37
Ethylene plays a dual role in sex determination and fruit shape in cucurbits37
Ecological niche modelling37
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes37
Animal flight: Fly gyros get a new spin36
Resolving the associative learning paradox by category learning in pigeons36
On the highway to climate hell36
Polyploid cyanobacterial genomes provide a reservoir of mutations, allowing rapid evolution of herbicide resistance36
A method to soothe and promote sleep in crying infants utilizing the transport response36
Jingfeng Zhou36
Regulation of outer kinetochore assembly during meiosis I and II by CENP-A and KNL-2/M18BP1 in C. elegans oocytes36
A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch36
Aging: Lifespan and the evolution of somatic mutation rates35
Biological clocks: Hungry on time35
Wing regeneration: Single-cell analysis sheds new light35
Mitosis: Augmin-based bridges keep kinetochores in line35
Hippocampal signals modify orbitofrontal representations to learn new paths35
Pollinator conservation: Where will bees go in the Anthropocene future?35
Åke Lindström35
Kevin J. Verstrepen35
Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants35
Neuroscience: Visual restoration with optogenetics35
A mechanism for differential control of axonal and dendritic spiking underlying learning in a cerebellum-like circuit35
Mining noise set to rock the oceans35
Evidence for deceptive fertility in a wild primate34
Evolution: Structure and surprises in the diversification of golden algae34
Culture in birds34
Genome and transcriptome of Selaginella kraussiana reveal evolution of root apical meristems in vascular plants34
Speciation: Sexual selection also plays a role in plants34
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